New Book Compliments The Works of Peter Dale Scott

[David Guyatt]

While none of this should be news to anyone who reads this Forum, I just read a 114 page article by the author [haven't yet gotten the book] that was in the Harvard Security Journal Vol. 5 - and while not news is very good at further documenting all this [the rise of the Deep Political State]. He names names, and follows it through time as it transfers from England to the U.S. and then develops - its seeds planted before the ink was dry on the Constitution. All of this was outlined before in another great book called Tragedy and Hope. Glennon, a professor at Tufts, even goes into why he believes those that run the Double/Secret/Deep State do so - and do so secretly. In short they do not believe in Democracy at all and think the average person to be too naive, ill-informed, un-involved, and lacking in interest of the big issues to be allowed to have control of their country. There is a class issue, as well. Again, nothing startling new here, but nice to see it spelled out, with quotes from those in control over time and those trying to get back democratic control [Hint: those fighting for a real or even greater democracy lost the battle]. It is heavily footnoted, and I think a must-read along with all of Peter Dale Scott's books.

Sixty years later, sitting atop its national security institutions, an
intra-governmental network that has descended from what Truman created
now manages the real work of preventing the country from, in Acheson's
phrase, "go[ing] wrong." The Washington Post's landmark 2011 study of
Truman's modern handiwork, "Top Secret America," identified forty-six
federal departments and agencies engaged in classified national security
work. Their missions range from intelligence gathering and analysis to
war-fighting, cyber-operations, and weapons development. Almost 2,000
private companies support this work, which occurs at over 10,000 locations
across America. The size of their budgets and workforces are mostly
classified, but it is clear that those numbers are enormousa total annual
outlay of around $1 trillion and millions of employees.

...but he goes beyond the above description of the machinery into who, how and why the few [hundred he thinks] that really run any country, or often multiple countries at one time, are and act the way they do. And above the machinery of the Deep State are those who 'own' the majority of the wealth of the State....just as the first Head of the Supreme Court, John Jay put it centuries ago, "Those who own American are the ones who ought to rule it."

Do you have a link to that article, Pete?

PS, belay that, I just found it: Harvard National Security Journal ---- my reading for today ::laughingdog::